Chapter 4 of the Gospel of John has a parable about enduring suffering. It is about the time of Jesus. At that time, Jewish religious leaders accused the Samaritans as heretics and shunned the Samaritans, but Jesus did not abandon this woman. On the contrary, he extended a hand of sympathy and salvation to her and her compatriots. [The Samaritan girl] tells a similar story. The difference is that Jesus here is a sinful father, and the Samaritan woman here is his daughter.
For Kim Kidd, [The Samaritan Girl] is likely to be a timely and benign breakthrough. Although the story is still very Kim Ki-de, that is to say, it is full of extreme sex and violence, but the ending is very beautiful and meaningful. Two underage girls met to go into prostitution in order to save enough money for air tickets to travel to Europe. One of them is responsible for contacting and watching the clients, and the other is responsible for dealing with the clients. Once, a girl who sold herself during the police arresting a prostitute committed suicide by jumping off a building. Another girl who witnessed the tragedy was greatly stimulated and decided absurdly to sleep with men who had traded with friends and exchange the money for them in hopes of salvation. . Unexpectedly, her father discovered inadvertently that this man could not accept this tragic reality, so he went from stalking his daughter, beating his clients, and finally out of control, killing a man sleeping with his daughter in a public toilet, and then walked on. A road of no return. After the murder, the father took his daughter into the mountain to sweep the grave of his deceased wife, and spent the night at the farmhouse on the mountain. After going down the mountain the next day, he called and surrendered to the police. When the police arrived, his daughter was learning to drive. Seeing her father was taken away, she drove desperately to catch up, but stumbled and ran aground on the mountain road.
I am very opposed to the use of the word "sadness" in some comments on Kim Kidd's movies. "Sadness" is not so much extravagance for Kim Kidd's films as superficial. Kim Kidd's movies are painful, the kind of pain that smashes bones and connects muscles.
There are a lot of extreme cruel things in Kim Kidd’s movie. In this movie, for example, the vile way the musician seized the girl’s body, such as the humiliation of the girl’s father who broke into the home of three generations of prostitutes, such as the girl’s death by her father. Dreams (this is actually another ending provided by Kim Kidd, an ending in line with his previous pursuit of violent aesthetics), are extremely abnormal human behaviors, are brutal actions that ruthlessly tear apart truth, goodness and beauty-this one The pornographic scenes of the movie are actually very limited, but it is not unreasonable to classify it as "watched over 18 years old".
The film is also unique in structure. In the first 20 minutes, it seems to be a youth film about the ambiguous relationship between two girls (like Shunji Iwai); then one girl dies, and the other sells her body for atonement (like the old Japanese Ethical drama); Then when the second story is halfway through, the girl's father unexpectedly appears. This story actually begins here, and what follows is a heart-piercing family relationship.
We should focus on the ending of the film. The father knew that his daughter was very painful after prostitution, so he followed his daughter time after time and secretly sabotaged her and the client's transaction in time. He didn't dare to be discovered by his daughter, let alone face her. Kim Ki-duk’s handling of this is very powerful, because in the process of stopping and retaliating again and again, his father will get closer and closer to the cruel scene, and his psychology will inevitably become more and more on the verge of losing control. At this time, he happened to appear once. The situation in which the car was accidentally blocked during the tracking process made it reasonable for him to beat the driver in a sudden rage. This accident also caused another irreversible defeat, that is, he finally failed to prevent his daughter from having a relationship with others in time, which also led to his later murder-the intensity of the violence by men has always been within his capacity. The pain is directly proportional.
From indirect homicide to active homicide, the future of his father is a foregone conclusion, but the direction of the whole story can still be restored, which depends on Kim Kidd’s aesthetic pursuit at this stage. According to Kim Kidd’s past style, the ending of this story is that both the father and the daughter died. For example, the father drove down a cliff, for example, the father crushed his daughter on a hillside and then committed suicide. For example, the answer Kim Kim gave us, which is the girl. The dream implies—the father strangled his daughter and buried her by the river. But this time Jin Kidd didn't do this, it's really fortunate. If they were arranged to die, the story would be too mediocre.
The final outcome is this: In the mountains, the father encouraged his daughter to learn to drive. The daughter was very excited and drove well. At this time, the police arrived and took the father away. The daughter drove after seeing him. This staggered chasing. The action is really desperate and heartbreaking. We can think that this car is a hint of a future life that the daughter can't control, and the fading father is an irretrievable past. This ending is very profound, far harder than two people dying because of despair. This is what I said, "[Samaria girl] is probably a timely and benign breakthrough for Kim Ki-duk". Where.
Some critics believe that [Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring] is a turning point in Kim Kidd’s film thoughts. It does not seem to be totally unreasonable. This movie may not completely reinvent him, but it clearly completed his personal artistic transformation.[ The Samaritan girl] must be the result of this transformation.
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